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What Would You Like to Plutofy?

As most of you know, 2006 was a difficult year for Pluto. It had been a member of the "Solar System Planet Club" since 1930. But in August, it got kicked out because a group of astronomers changed the rules of membership. They decided that for a body to be termed a "planet," it must "dominate its orbit." Since Pluto doesn't, it's been downgraded to "minor planet" status and given the number 134340.

This whole episode got me thinking about what if we started Plutofying other things. [To Plutofy something means rescinding its membership in a group, set, team, or arrangement of items.]

Here are some candidates for Plutofication. What can you add to the list?

What if we Plutofied the letter "C" from the Roman alphabet?"S" and "K" can do the job just as well. And 25 letters can be neatly arranged into a nifty 5 x 5 matrix.

I think baseball would be a lot more exciting if the Commissioner Plutofied the position of "center fielder." There would be lots more running in the outfield, and more runs scored!

Plutofying the "Ten Lords A-Leaping" from the "12 Days of Christmas" would make it more egalitarian and less stressful.

One of the goals of the Gates Foundation seems to be Plutofying Pestilence from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Think of how the New Testament would change if the Gospel of Luke were Plutofied.

The Dow Jones 30 market average would improve if Intel were Plutofied.

Seven dwarves is too many. Plutofy "Grumpy" (you could do this by giving him antidepressants).

Salad forks from from the set of dinner utensils.

The are many weeks I'd like to Plutofy Monday from Days of the Week. Just jump from Sunday right into Tuesday. Doesn't most of the world's work get done on Tuesday anyway? Six days in a week has a nice feel to it.

Comments

If I had my choice I would Plutofy Microsoft Publisher. It's an application that beginners or non-professionals use for the most part and one that professionals will only buy so they can open up the files from clients to re-create in a more professional design program like InDesign.

Along those same lines I would Plutofy file version incompatibility to the point users of older versions of programs can open files created by newer versions. Once again Microsoft Publisher is guilty of this. I had a perfectly good copy of Publisher 2000 and since then moved on to more professional print layout programs however I had to get an upgrade to Publisher 2003 so I could open files from others.

I guess this all boils down to using closed file formats in an interconnected World. it's not the 80's anymore.

Just plutofy "job" in everybody's mind. No job no paycheck then everybody have to find ways for a living. What can i do if no job is available? What if human beings being replaced by robots? Where you don't see blue collars/white collars busy up down on the street,crowding the train in the morning/evening,jobless fresh grad hang out in the cyber cafe playing games or doing nothing at home, fired senior executives dressing formal attire wandering the street reading newspaper until 6pm before they go home and I wont be sitting here typing for something to be post in Roger's blog.